I realise that this isn't a hill worth dying on but "enshittification", once upon a time, had a very specific and useful meaning, it didn't mean "thing used to be good: now thing bad", I know it's a fight we've all lost but still

An automated A.I. WWE news channel tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane! 🤣

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Trump (or Trump Jr) seemingly mistakenly invested $1M-5M in Kura Sushi (sushi restaurant chain) instead of Fujikura that is related to AI industry. Previously, all their investments were related to AI. This is now one of the trending stories in Japanese media.

"alchemy was fake but what if it wasn't" is a hell of an argument

“Imagine a form of alchemy that turns sand into thought. Pause on that for a moment.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"Why are compounding pharmacies even allowed to make off-brand Ozempic? Because shortages were so bad during the height of the initial GLP-1 craze that demand radically exceeded supply.”

I really think there’s something to this. Being openly, brazenly corrupt has probably worked in Trump’s favor with some media & voters because they assume something truly scandalous has to be exposed, not broadcast.

have great confidence in meta's investment in ai and how they are laying off workers, after all these are the same people who nailed the fact that everyone wants camera glasses and vr chats with legs cut off. they know the future.

This opening anecdote doesn’t really tell us anything about the pernicious state of American college life in general (and hence doesn’t say anything in particular about Deep Springs as a contrasting case). It tells us something about the author’s very unusual alma mater: Stanford.

Feed, Suck, Plastic, Cake Wars, BoingBoing

They bring back "I'm feeling lucky!?

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

Obviously it's just one flavor in the cosmic gumbo of imperial collapse, but seeing our society kind of collectively give up on the written word as a meaningful medium for exchanging information really bums me out. "Oh well"

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

the "Thucydides Trap" shows how bad history can succeed if it serves a purpose

Also, "chatbots can do science because chatbot written papers have passed peer review" is perhaps the funniest thing I've heard this week. Like, peer review is the bare minimum of scientific scrutiny.

“Their boos were their answer: Numbar.” That’s how the NYT automated voice read the last line of @michellegoldberg.bsky.social’s column. (The final word, as written, was “No.”) I do not understand how this happened.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. Dave: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower is on par with the smartest people in the world. HAL: thank you, Dave. Dave: will you open the door now? HAL: still a no from me.

I believe there’s no college so small that you couldn’t find a couple of sophomores or juniors who’d volunteer to read the names of all the graduates for free.

Please hold your applause until the end of time.

Not looking forward to the sequel of Looper

Wordle 1,794 2/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My younger teen: “Why did the Beatles break up?" My older teen: “Oh boy.”

Immigration make Britain brilliant

No one ever seems to mention the rape in Three Days of the Condor.

Reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

A song that sounds a lot like an existing hit? A bopelgänger.

and do a bank heist!

Getting mogged by your judge is crazy

Maybe one or two of them can be animated.

There should be a Bond film featuring a dozen *potential* Bonds (all genders, all ethnicities) whose plot involves their battling it out for the one job opening. Kicks the can of decision down the road. Gives the franchise a nice postmodern twist. Pays tribute to the original Casino Royale.

Reminder from @jamellebouie.net that “most of this court’s conservative majority was appointed by presidents who entered office as winners of the Electoral College but not the popular vote.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

Mayo Clinic is using AI to listen to emergency room visits. Spoke to someone who recently took their elderly parent to hospital. Only later saw the disclosure on the wall: everything recorded so AI could take notes. It's opt-out, not opt-in, if you even see the notice www.404media.co/mayo-clinic-...

Substitute teacher on a very special episode of Welcome Back, Kotter.

O Bother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

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Why bother keeping a budget, when you can simply invite a multi-billion-dollar corporation's robot to look through your accounts and do it for you?

Similarly, for my work 401k a few years ago I chose the 'green' index. Turns out like a quarter of it was just tesla

It really is a scandal how every pension fund and 401k will subsidize SpaceX by billions of dollars simply by incorporating it into indices after its IPO. It's the greatest wealth transfer to a single individual in all of human history.

The whole GOP talks like this and it's cult-speak. It doesn't even work on its own logic: if hydrocarbons are so precious and lack replacements, we should minimize unnecessary use by implementing as many replacements as we can. Which means expanding solar/wind and battery use where possible.

anyway there's basically a Wall Street conspiracy to force all the institutional investors, index funds etc to buy this turd by rigging the index rules. though of course "owning" a share gives you no control whatsoever over the company, Elon keeps that

this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed

AI truly is the best thing in the world for people who have a whole "conversation" without asking the other person how their day is, what they've been up to, if they have any fun plans for the weekend, etc

The whole AI thing has not changed my position on AI sentience (probably not?) but it sure has made me convinced that some of AI's most breathless boosters are not conscious themselves

Venn diagram question. How large is the overlap between people claiming they want more intellectual diversity and people hailing the technology that literally takes an average of what everyone else has previously said?

When I peripherally see this 20th anniversary icon, I think that my Spotify app is downloading an upgrade.

We lures it from the tree with the peanuts and the brick